Wave Goodbye To The US Postal Service -- GOP Poised To Kill It

[Ampersand Unicode]

50. They hate science but are playing right into Silicon Valley's agenda.

Technology evangelists and CEOs hate the USPS, saying it's a waste of taxpayer money to fund the preferred communication method of obsolete Luddites who should just die off already and quit standing in the way of digital progress. They're even over e-mail by now and want to shove everyone in the direction of texting, smartphones and social media. Online billing and Apple Pay/Twitter Square, too, and "e-print" magazines. Heck, Hallmark is losing money because people send "e-cards" or Facebook people on birthdays and anniversaries rather than send cards. The big-money nerds have no sense of sentimentality or emotion about the human experience. People like getting cards and letters, and want something more personal than an automated Mail Merge-type thing from anti-social media that says, "Happy Birthday|Anniversary|Graduation|<custom event>, <firstname> <lastname>!"

Fuck the corporate-fetishist rethugs, and fuck the socially inept Borg in the Bay Area. They'll take my Forever Stamps and even junk mail from my cold winter hands!